Bill Lhotka
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
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Pontiac, Boone, Lincoln, Grant, Lovejoy, Benton, Kefauver . . . they all had some tie to crimes in the St. Louis area over the past two hundred years. In St. Louis Crime Chronicles: The First 200 Years, 1764 - 1964, kidnappers, arsonists, outlaws, poisoners, boodlers, mobsters, and more leap from the page. Stories cover frontier justice on a fur trade expedition, the infamous Greenlease kidnapping, the Grant administration s whisky ring, the murder of St. Louis most famous civil rights leader, riverfront duels, and more. Author Bill Lhotka documents nearly fifty crimes on both side of the river in this engaging collection.